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81) Sunday. Oct. 21. 1979 rt'irm www www wowryvi Philadelphia Inquirer Colgate's use of a wing-T beats Princeton by 17 to 6 i www -4 -v. V.

inch senior said. "Still couldn't throw 100 percent, but within my limits, I did OK. With that in mind, we went to a game plan of a little off-tackle (runs) and play-action passes. "Our confidence is building it started last week at Holy Cross (a 17-16 Raider win). It's where we want it now." For the improving Raiders, bounding back from a 1-3 start, the record may well follow.

By Paul Smith Special lo The Inquirer PRINCETON, N. J. The Delaware wing-T. Eor years, coaches have spent sleepless nights trying to figure out how to shut down that offensive monster. Princeton couldn't figure it out yesterday, losing to Colgate's version, 17-6, before 12,687 at Palmer Stadium.

The Raiders (3-3) sandwiched second-quarter and fourth-quarter touchdowns around a third-quarter, '20-yard field goal by Brian Byrne 1 and, in the process, wore out the THE OFFICIAL SNOW PLOW OF THE 1980 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES "We couldn't run at 'em, so we had to spread 'em, side to side." Anybody who has seen flawless execution of the wing-T, complete with zig-zag motions, rollout waggle passes and double reverses, could understand the Raiders' proficiency in the second half. "Marzo only completed 5-for-8, huh?" marveled Princeton Coach Frank Navarro, whose team is 2-3 going into Saturday's Big Three matchup at Harvard. "Well, to put it flatly, he was the difference. We had known he'd start against us, but what concerned us was the big play." Actually, it was a series of little plays that did in Princeton. Colgate's longest play from scrimmage was Freeman's 26-yard, fourth-quarter bolt around right end.

He led all rushers with 91 yards. The Tigers finally found their offense in the final five minutes, when Navarro began wholesale substitutions, sending in Bob Holly to replace Steve Reynolds, who did not have a productive day at quarterback. "Instant offense," two Tiger fans hollered. They were right. Holly drove the Tigers from their 20 to the Colgate 29.

They stalled there, but, after the Princeton defense forced a Raider punt, Holly completed six passes in a row five for first downs and in less than 90 seconds took the Tigers home, hitting sub fullback Fred Rosenberg for the final yard. His 10-for-l3, 99-yard passing stats helped some fans forget Marzo's dominating performance. Marzo's shoulder bothered him some. "I felt strong," the 6-foot, 3- Aim nn nirrir TnmfV hnwwwwi i iiwitwiirfrfiiiiteiifHii nwrwi imwipaMrwtW Special to The Inquirer Keith Meyers Western, the Official Snowplow for the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. Put dependability on your team.

See: C. W. Post's Joe Puca runs right into the arms of Delaware's Bob Kleha, who brings him down Brunner's passes lead Delaware to 47-19 cakewalk over C. W. Post GALLAGHER EQ.

CO. Route 100 Exton, PA 19341 215458-8541 Tigers' fundamentally sound defense. Matt McGrath spent the afternoon alternately chasing Colgate running backs and quarterback John Marzo, who threw for both Colgate scores. His nine-yard toss to Gene Young capped a 67-yard, second-quarter drive, and his three-yard pass to Jim Freeman came after a Bill Dunlca interception and return to the Princeton 34. "You could feel it coming on their first touchdown drive," said McGrath, a senior tackle from Archbishop Ryan High in Northeast Philadelphia.

"They were beating us on first and second down, and their quarterbacks (Marzo and sub Tom Rosenfeld) were just getting the ball off as we got to 'em. It surprised me I didn't think they were that good." They were because Colgate Coach Fred Dunlap had learned his lessons well while at Lehigh, against whom Delaware's wing-T piled up impressive yardage in the late '60s and early 70s. Yesterday, his offense ground out 402 total yards, 270 rushing, and held the ball for 38 minutes 33 seconds to Princeton's 21:27. "Johnny Marzo's one of the few older guys on this team, and we wanted to get him back (in the lineup after a shoulder dislocation)," Dun-lap said. "I decided to use him Thursday night He got hit in practice a couple of times, but it didn't hurt.

"He gave us a lift we challenged the corner and, you know, Princeton's pretty strong inside, and we didn't get too much up the middle early in the game. SHOW REGULAR SALE WHITEWALLS MOUNTING, BALANCING VALVE STEMS FREE PA.S1ATE INSPECTIGN firo. crtwaraw 'Miium miMn i 4 Ply Polyester 1st Quality Radial BR78-13 3IM DR78-14 34" ER78-14 FR78-14 36" 20H 22H 23H .24" .25 .26 27" G78-14. ALL SEASON RADIAL BR7813 34. Fiberglas Belt A78-13 22" B78-13 23" C78-13 24" C78-14 25M E78-14 26" F78-14 27" G78-14 29" H78-14 30" G78-15 29" H78-15 31" J78-15 32" L78-15 32" time, our guys were on him before he had a chance to set up, let alone throw." The Pioneers, who hadn't allowed a first-period touchdown in six games dating back to November of last year, saw the Hens explode for 14 points within 53 seconds before the game was six minutes old.

Except for a lackluster second period in which the teams traded touchdowns tried to get too cute instead of going right at them," Brunner admitted), it was a Delaware cakewalk. The first time the Hens had the ball in the third period, they went 73 yards in five plays to score a touchdown, only to see kicker Brandt Kennedy's conversion streak end at 27 when his kick went wide. The Hens added three more touchdowns between then and the first minute of the fourth period for a 47-7 lead. Against Delaware's reserves, Post added two meaningless touchdowns. "We're a better football team than we were this time last year," Brace-land said with obvious pride.

"We're more talented, we've matured a year, we have more experience." Brunner agreed. "We're a lot more together," he said. "Everything is much more cohesive. Yes we're better than a year ago." Raymond, who is not given to such positive statements, also agreed to a point. "We just might be (better)," he admitted.

"But we still have a long way to go." But not as far as C.W. Post. it worked for them previously as they came in with a 4-1 record," said Delaware Coach Tubby Raymond, "but it's the same defense they played against us in the Boardwalk Bowl." That was in 1971 when Delaware won, 72-22. "I thought we could move the ball on the ground against them, especially the cross-block," Raymond explained. "That worked for us all day, they never took it away from us.

I think we went away from it too soon." Certainly Raymond was right the cross-block did work. But so did everything else against a team that had allowed only 30 points in five previous outings. Led by Gino Olivie-ri (11 carries for 59 yards) and Bo Dennis (8 for 53), the Hens rushed for 271 yards on the way to a 519-yard total-offense effort. "The running game was really on," said Brunner, "and that's what set up the touchdown passes. They really played into our hands." That's putting it as graciously as possible.

"We could have crucified them if Tubby had kept the first team in," said St. John Neumann High grad Ed Braceland who came back from two injuries to sack Post quarterback Lou Buschi four times. Brunner watched the defensive wrecking crew make a shambles of the Post offense which, by the way, also beat up on the Merchant Marine Academy this year to the tune of 55-0. There were times, he admitted, when he found himself cringing. "I was really feeling sorry for their passer," he admitted.

"Most of the By Bill Simmons Inquirer Slafl Writer NEWARK, Del. Three and a half weeks ago, C. W. Post football coach-Dom Anile told a University of Delaware staffer that there were four or five high school teams on Long Island that were capable of beating the Merchant Marine Academy. After Delaware demolished the Mariners, 65-0, a few days later, you got the idea that maybe he was right.

However, after his Pioneers absorbed a 47-19 pasting by the same Blue Hens yesterday before a Delaware Stadium Homecoming crowd of 20,343, you gotta figure that two or three of those same high school teams are capable of beating the Post "Toasties." "There's no question that Delaware is the finest football team we have played in a long time," Anile said yesterday. "And, obviously, they caught us on our worst day." It is reasonable to say that this was the Pioneers' worst day. Except for the fact there is some question as to how well prepared they were for the Delaware wing-T attack, especially in light of the fact that they came in ranked third in the country in Division II defense. "If I had my choice of a defense to play against, that would be it," said Delaware quarterback Scott Brun-ner, who completed 10 of 17 passes for 239 yards and five touchdowns, tying the Delaware record set 10 years ago by Tom DiMuzio against Lehigh. "I don't want to rip their defense 39" 40" 40" 41" 42" 42" G78-15 26" H78-15 27M J78-15 29 L78-15 30" Stallions sign defender AsiociaMd Press BUFFALO, N.

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The offense still had a lack of killer instinct, but came through at crucial times and completely bullied the Kutztown defense in the second half. The end-of-the-game fumble cost the Bears a tie, but a gaffe by Coach George Baldwin enabled Cheyney to march for its own touchdown with 5:34 to go in the fourth quarter. Kutztown had a fourth down and one yard to go on its own 32-yard line and Baldwin, despite leading 7-0 at the time, elected to go for it. Verica tried a sneak and was piled up by the whole Cheyney line for no gain. Cheyney quarterback Tyrone Bal-kum, in for shaken-up starter Earl Pearson, directed a seven-play drive culminated by a fourth-and-goal scoring pass to end Garry Williams from the five.

Johnson's kick tied it. ning, he had every reason to be confident and he was correct. Cheyney got the ball on its own 39 with two minutes to go, but Balkum moved the Wolves quickly upfield. A screen pass to fullback Julian Ray was good for 33 yards. Then Balkum hit end Harrum Majeed on a down-and-out pattern for 16 yards, Jones went left for 12 more and Ray went over right tackle for 10 yards, setting up the play he fumbled on.

"The fumbles could have lost the game," admitted Balkum, "but I was confident all the way." "I thought we could move the ball all the way," said Hinson. His squad did, running up a net of 184 yards rushing and 168 passing. Kutztown, led by 6-foot, 235-pound junior fullback Don Shaver, dented the vaunted Cheyney defense early by going 71 yards on 13 plays and consuming 7:15 on the clock to start the game. Shaver, who rushed for 116 yards in 33 tries, went over from the one for the touchdown. But the key to the drive was not really Kutztown's power.

It was Chey-ncy's mistakes. The Wolves were whistled for five penalties' for 25 yards to help the drive. "We didn't get any offensive consistency," said Baldwin. "They were hitting," said Shaver. "They pursued very well.

They made it tough to move around. We had plenty of chances," he said of the Cheyney turnovers. "They gave us the opportunities. We blew it." Or maybe Cheyney, so generous and giving all day, just turned ornery in the final minute. By Lewis Freedman Inquirer Stall Writer Somebody should introduce the Cheyney State football team's offense to the United Way.

The United Way is a consortium of charities that distributes donations among its members. It would save the Wolves some trouble. The Wolves were about as generous as they could be yesterday, throwing four interceptions and fumbling the ball away five times, but in the end, the way most good teams do, they found a way to win, 10- 7, over Kutztown State and stay unbeaten, 7-0. It took a 24-yard field goal by Charles Johnson with 10 seconds left to send the estimated crowd of 4,000 in Cheyney Stadium home happy for homecoming, just moments after a heart-breaking fumble into the end zone by Julian Ray, at the end of a brilliant five-yard run lugging half the Bear defense on his back made it look like the game was destined to be a tie. Victimized so many times throughout the game by their own errors, the Wolves capitalized on two colossal ones by Kutztown (3-3), to extend their season-long winning streak.

Cheyney defensive end Dexter Holmes, who earlier blocked a 25-yard field-goal attempt by Scott Anderson, pounced on a fumble by Kutztown quarterback Mark Verica at his own seven-yard line and with the seconds ticking off since Cheyney had exhausted its timeouts, Johnson booted the winner through. Cheyney came into the game allowing just 6.1 points per game and 60.3 "I'm the stupidest coach in world," said Baldwin afterward. fjT Remember, you only have 1 pair of feet and they de- serve the best. These top quality, bold NEW boots I a I ave everv VO" could ever want and more! Ciuinrmiin $Jt WATERPROOF, yet breathable-soft silicone treated leather uppers securely and permanently; HEAT BONDED to welt Pilo-Tuff mid-sole and V'1 V.t tVj A CLEATED VIBRAM outsoles i' ,9 FULL LEATHER LINED and INSULATED to last I jrHrr longer, wear better with LIOF It CUSHION INSOLES and the best i7f V- I) DEEP PADDED LEATHER COLLARS. You get Two Convenient Locations In ttra Northoait.

i 0 Parking a both the 'We had to control the football and I didn't think we'd be able to hold on. Six inches isn't unreasonable, but that's dumb football. There's no way I can alibi it." Hinson said he never considered going for two points when the Wolves scored the first touchdown because he was confident they would get the ball back and move it down-field. With Balkum (10-for-15 for 157 yards) throwing and halfback Wynn Jones (103 yards in 21 carries) run 3d-stringer leads Rutgers to 24-0 rout second period, his touchdown runs of four and three yards staking the Scarlet Knights to a 14-0 halftime lead. It was all Rutgers in the second half.

The defensive line continued to dominate William and Mary's offensive unit and Ray's running kept the offense moving. Kennan Startzcll kicked a 20-yard field goal and Johnson, who replaced Ray late in the fourth quarter, got the other Rutgers touchdown on a one-vard run. William and Mary played giveaway most of the game, quarterback Chris Garrity coughing the ball up twice on fumbles and throwing an interception in the first half. Garrity was replaced by Alan Drewer in the second half, but Drewer threw two interceptions and never got the Indians moving. Rutgers, meanwhile, rolled up 246 yards on the ground.

Quarterback Ed McMichael completed six of nine passes for 57 yards. Associated Press WILLIAMSBURG, Va. Third-string tailback Albert Ray, called into action after an injury and another substitute's ineffectiveness, ran for 123 yards and two touchdowns yesterday to lead Rutgers' to a 24-0 i'Kjthiill victory over William and in iwrd starter David Dorn. v. a knee, and sccond-- .1 a vr ister Johnson into the mi lli.i slashing off-tackle runs got the Kutgers offense moving in the FAMILY SHOE STORES KJ.

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